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Meanings of sylph in anglès

A mythological creature associated with the element of air.

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Examples for "sylphid"
Examples for "sylphid"
1
A nymph must rise from the stream, a sylphid from the rose, before I could allow another to steal you from my side.
Lucretia — Volume 05
2
In your case, the man who gives us Eve and Sylphid is an enragé, a fanatic-for-real.
The Guardian
3
But Eve is simply a pitiful woman and Sylphid is a pampered, wicked fat girl with a bison hump.
The Guardian
Usage of sylph in anglès
1
The sylph took it in her delicate hand, and began to eat.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 / A Magaz...
2
Nightshade's domain, he thought in horror, and no place for the sylph.
The Tangle Box
3
His eyes pierce to where stands the sylph he leaves with reluctance.
The Memories of Fifty Years / Containing Brief Biographical Noti...
4
The sylph smiled briefly, then turned and moved off into the bedroom.
Wizard at Large
5
The sylph is very ill. He hesitated, then pulled Ben after him.
Magic Kingdom for Sale - SOLD!
6
There was a need to find the sylph that defied explanation.
The Black Unicorn
7
Do you know what became of your beloved sylph after you abandoned her?
Magic Kingdom for Sale - SOLD!
8
Ben stared at the sylph in anger and frustration, and then in despair.
Magic Kingdom for Sale - SOLD!
9
During his stay, he ventured to look once only at her sylph-like figure.
Thaddeus of Warsaw
10
They surged into the watershed of the sylph's mind, jumbling together.
The Black Unicorn
11
Naomi Frederick looks both earnest and unfocused, a sylph in tweeds.
The Guardian
12
She looked so very sylph-like as she sat there, bending her graceful head.
Halcyone
13
A young queen approaches, brilliant with diamonds and flowers-thiswas always my sylph.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters
14
They bore the sylph to the dragon and bound her to his back.
Magic Kingdom for Sale - SOLD!
15
Fair as a sylph but icy-hearted as a woman of five social seasons!
The Son of Clemenceau, A Novel of Modern Love and Life
16
The sylph kept his word, and with what success, what enthusiasm!
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2
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